Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novel was not very well received. At the time of his death, two days after the publication of the novel, he could hardly be considered a resounding popular success. In her notes to the recent collection of his writing, Long Time Coming, Mimi remarks that he was perhaps a bit jealous of Bob Dylan, who was several years younger and was making it in a much bigger...
...principal advice to Nixon lately has been that the Government has to create economic "uncertainty." Burns believes that inflation can be stopped only if the Government persuades businessmen and consumers that prosperity is not necessarily perpetual and price rises are not inevitable. Right now, there is quite a bit of uncertainty. Last week, for example, the Government reported that in September personal income showed the smallest rise in 17 months, and industrial production dropped for the second straight month...
...Shierlaw controls 8% of the company's 2.5 million shares, an amount worth $6.5 million. Sitting behind a desk littered with empty beer cans, lumps of ore, contract notes and mining magazines, Shierlaw said: "Early in the week it was champagne, but we've calmed down a bit now. Back on beer." Meanwhile, his friend Shirley, who owns an undisclosed amount of the company's stock, had returned to Windarra-to begin prospecting again...
...budget or small, no Hollywood film is complete these days without the "promo bit"-cross-country tours by the stars to plug the movie in the press and on TV. Lee Marvin has gone that route enough times to have pained memories: "Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff. Grab a shower. Take a plane. Blah, blah, blah. Get stiff...
ANGELS FALLING by Janice Elliott. 409 pages. Knopf. $6.95. Miss Elliott's three generation chronicle of a British family named Garland-many of whose members betray great emotion by throwing up -reads a bit like the Forsyte Saga eviscerated for television...